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Happy Endings in Age of Youth 2. Even Song Ji Won.
Age of Youth 2 completes the stories of the Belle Epoque girls, and gives them all the fairy tale happy endings they needed from Season 1. I know, I know, there’s Song ji Won, but let’s save her for last.
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goodbye my love...
even though our hearts are breaking...
even through everything that's changing...
I'll keep on loving you
song by Birdy
Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.
Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.”
“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”
“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”
It’s just.
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.
i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.
I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.
Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”
Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol
I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.” “Why would you think that, ma’am?” “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?” They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.
So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.
Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.
A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”
“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”
So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.
She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.
Tagging @oldshrewsburyian because I feel like you’ll enjoy this and also have some Thoughts.
Hmmm YEAH. This post contains many good things, but I still resent it because it does something endemic to Tumblr. It reduces a complex issue to a simple one, and it does so by making academic specialists the butt of a joke. “Hahahaha, stupid eggheads, can’t tell what they’re looking at, they need to ask the real people, artisans and laborers and mothers and hairstylists!”
…I am, admittedly, scarred by the roads down which that kind of anti-intellectualism has taken American society in recent years (and decades.) And I recognize that not all of the participants in the above thread are guilty of that reductive approach. The thing is: yes, academics (whatever their/our specialty) should always ask people with complementary knowledge and skill sets. If I recall correctly, the ancient metropolis of Ur (yes, that Ur) was only found after British archaeologists asked local tribesmen if they knew where an ancient city had been. The answer to “how do you find a city center that was once a power hub and is now under sand?” is: ask the locals. But also: there are some false dichotomies being drawn in the above post that disturb me. “Archaeologists” and “mothers” are not mutually exclusive categories, for instance.
Moreover, even knowing beyond a doubt what things were used for, or how things were done, is not the be-all-end-all of archaeology. That still doesn’t tell us what they meant. Take the famous Viking-era Birka grave of a biologically female skeleton buried with weapons. I think it’s Judith Jesch who has referred to this person – whoever they were – as “designated warrior at death.” Predictably, there was a lot of public excitement about “ooh a woman warrior! enlightened Vikings! shield maiden!” Meanwhile, historians and archaeologists have been asking if please, we might consider the transness of this warrior as an option.
Finally, because ancient Rome is just close enough to what I work on, I know something about the work of Janet Stephens, anonymized above as “a hairdresser,” known to me as an experimental archaeologist. I have no evidence for her facing alleged mockery. She’s been published in top-level academic journals (x). She’s been invited to lecture at prestigious research universities (x). Her work has been widely acknowledged both in public-facing articles (e.g. by the BBC and the Smithsonian) and by academics. This is not a story of the plucky maverick vs. the establishment, beloved though that narrative is by my fellow Americans. It’s a story of an expert being acknowledged by experts.
Also: Fundamentally, what experimental archaeologists do, and what many of them do WELL (God knows that those of us behind a desk rely on their work a lot - nothing of what I’m going to say is in an attempt to diminish the legitimacy of what they’re doing) is to offer one theory on How Shit Was Done. It can be a GOOD theory, it can be a theory that makes a ton of sense, it can be a theory with a lot of grounding from the written sources and the archaeological evidence, it can be a theory that everyone in the field accepts, but it’s also still a theory. It can change with new information and, often, it does. Any experimental archaeologist worth their salt will SAY, “This is how we think things worked - We have a good idea about it, it makes sense, but we might discover something tomorrow that totally overturns that.” Because the information we have isn’t static - We have to change our interpretation of the material as we gain more.
And, sometimes, not ALL the time, but sometimes, modern craftspeople, when asked about things (which: It’s IMPORTANT that they are consulted, that’s very important, never underestimate the importance of outside perspective) will try to force their understanding of things onto the past and totally ignore what academics are saying, even when said academics are saying, blatantly, “Look, here’s what’s written, we have five firsthand accounts. I know three different languages and this is what it’s saying in EACH ONE.” (This is depressingly common with female academics in particular.) Because sometimes….things aren’t a 1:1 here.They can give a lot of insight! And that’s important! But it’s also important for that insight to be weighed against the other material.
I never watched devious maids
And this rich woman has me JOKED
“Someone murdered my
maid who’s cleaning this up?!”
How about more sugar daddy Jaime AU headcanons? This verse is probably my favourite of yours ❤️
Thank you! I just adore this verse, too; I’m really excited to expand it. Here, have some headcanons!
On one of their afternoon outings, Jaime takes Brienne to see a new piece of property he’s just purchased. It’s a lavish apartment, two streets over from his own, and a brief drive to the university. And it’s hers.
Brienne, of course, tries to argue that books, rent, a car were one thing, but an apartment is something else entirely. Jaime silences her protests with a kiss and presses the key into her hand.
There is a spare; Jaime doesn’t have a key. He makes it abundantly clear that this is her space; he won’t be coming over at all hours without checking with her. That part of their arrangement still stands.
The apartment is gorgeous. The master bedroom has a king-sized bed; an en suite with a rain shower and a large tub. There’s a study already filled with books, and a reproduction of Oathkeeper on the wall.
As well as a stunning view out over King’s Landing, there is also a large landscape of Evenfall Hall hanging in the living room. The cherry on the expensive sundae is private access to the rooftop pool.
They break in Brienne’s new sofa with a good hour of heavy petting.
hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity
You know it legally is a charity, right?
If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code …
The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function.
You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity.
It needs what it gets to function and improve.
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They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.)
In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.
AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.
Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.
It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.
JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.
It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.
But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?
Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.
Care to guess its budget?
Double that of AO3.
AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.
The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.
It’s absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.
This.
I love AO3
when they call it dante’s inferno instead of divine comedy 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
I’m sorry, I read inferno but not purgatorio or paradisio
i only read the first two acts of macbeth which is why i call it mac
Buongiorno, oggi non abbiamo vinto nessuna competizione sportiva (credo), in compenso il fisico Giorgio Parisi ha vinto il Nobel per la fisica.
L'atleta della Israel conquista la corsa con un attacco sulla salita di Casciago insieme al veronese poi "bruciato" allo sprint. Scatenato P
@blogitalianissimo non passa giorno che un italiano vinca una gara😀
I desperately want to meet that woman and revoke her degree
WE WON THE EUROVISION
AND
WE WON THE EUROPEAN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
WHAT THE DUCK
ASK ME HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE ITALIAN IN 2021!!! C'MON!!!
I was on vacation when it happened, but important (late) update:
WE WON GOLD MEDALS IN THE MALE 100M AND MALE 4X100M RUN AT THE OLYMPICS
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING
THERE’S NO STOPPING US BITCHES THIS YEAR UH
ITALIAN SUMMER ISN’T OVER YET
OUR GIRLS WON THE VOLLEYBALL EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
BEATING SERBIA IN THEIR OWN HOME, SURROUNDED BY THEIR SUPPORTERS
PLEASE LET SUMMER 2021 NEVER END!!!
CAMPIONESSE D'EUROPAAAAA! 💙🏐🇮🇹
AND WE WON THE WHOLE PODIUM IN THE FEMALE 100M RUN AT THE PARALYMPICS!!
GIUSTO STIAMO SPACCANDO I COOLI ANCHE ALLE PARALIMPIADI 69 MEDAGLIE SO FAR
CHI CI FERMA PIÙ
IT’S STILL SUMMER IN ITALY RIGHT
VOLLEY EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS WITH BOTH FEMALE AND MALE TEAMS!!! WE ARE HISTORY!
BOW DOWN EUROPE, ITALY IS YOUR NEW QUEEN! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!
IT’S STARTING TO BECOME EMBARRASSING
WE WON THE PATISSERIE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (WORLD PASTY CUP)
WHAT IS GOING ON IS IT A BLESS? A CURSE? ARE WE DESTINED TO WIN EVERY COMPETITION UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR?
@thisgirlshouldbestudying honestly I thought it was you at first! So nice to see country neighbours celebrating!!
Truly a summer to remember
Only murders in the building is so cute
Like the dynamic between the three of them is so sweet and his anxiety manifests as Looney Tunes
I honestly think that the reason that twitter and tik tok think that tumblr is dead is that it does not have an algorythym that spoon feeds you content in the same way, there's no fyp and there's no news feed in the same way and people come here not realising they actually have to follow creators to see content.
Literally yes
